Monday, May 31, 2010

How to Triple-Boot Your Mac with Windows and Linux, No Boot Camp Required

Apple has streamlined the process of dual booting Windows on your Mac, but when it comes to Linux, Boot Camp isn't so friendly. Here's how to triple-boot your Mac with OS X, Windows 7, and the shiny new Ubuntu 10.04.

If you're a Mac user, you may have already used Apple's Boot Camp to get Windows on your system for those must-have programs. With a fast new Ubuntu out, however, you might want to give it a try—but installing Linux isn't exactly easy on Macs, since they don't recognize it by default.

Also complicating things? Linux and Windows' boot loaders will attempt to take over one another. Usually, this is a good thing, because Linux's multi-system loader makes the experience more seamless for PC users—but on a Mac, this really just makes things more difficult (no one wants to go through two menus to choose their OS). As such, installing Linux needs to be done with certain settings applied, or you'll be left with a jumbled mess. Here's a step-by-step guide to making your triple booting experience as user-friendly as possible.

Note that I will go through the steps to installing both Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04, but if you already have Windows installed, that shouldn't be an issue—just skip the Windows installation step and move on to installing Ubuntu, which is the more complicated (and important) part anyways.

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why i don't need virus software on a Mac?

Ans, i got it while i was just going on with the Discussions on Apple Site at following link:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2410671&tstart=0

Friday, April 9, 2010

Mac OS X v10.6.3 info

About Mac OS X v10.6.3 Update

The 10.6.3 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Snow Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac, including fixes that:


1.improve the reliability and compatibility of QuickTime X
2.address compatibility issues with OpenGL-based applications
3.address an issue that causes background message colors to display incorrectly in Mail
4.resolve an issue that prevented files with the # or & characters in their names from opening in Rosetta applications
5.resolve an issue that prevented files from copying to Windows file servers
6.improve performance of Logic Pro 9 and Main Stage 2 when running in 64-bit mode
7.improve sleep and wake reliability when using Bonjour wake on demand
8.address a color issue in iMovie with HD content
9.improve printing reliability
10.resolve issues with recurring events in iCal when connected to an Exchange server
11.improve the reliability of 3rd party USB input devices
12.fix glowing, stuck, or dark pixels when viewing video from the iMac (Late 2009) built-in iSight camera

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014.

For information on the security content of this update, please visit: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222

To Download Visit:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1017/en_US/MacOSXUpdCombo10.6.3.dmg

How to remove an email account in Mail

1.Open Mail (click it on the Dock or open it from the Applications folder).
2.From the Mail menu, choose Preferences..., or press Command-, (the Command and comma keys).
3.Click the "Accounts" icon.
4.Select the account you wish to remove.
5.Click the "-" (minus) icon. You will be alerted that "The account's setup information, mailboxes, messages, notes, and to do's will be deleted permanently from your computer."
6.If you are sure you want to remove the account and email messages from your computer, click "Remove" to complete this process.

How Set Up Email Account in Apple Mail


Before you configure Mail


>Make sure you are connected to the Internet (test with a web browser, for example).
>Use Software Update to install the latest available updates.

Configuring Mail via "Automatically set up account"
1.Enter the settings on the right.
2.Click Create.
3.You should now be able to test your new account by sending an email to yourself.

4.If it doesn't work, verify your account settings.(If you encounter any warning messages, please follow the instructions in those messages)

Manually configuring Mail
1.Open Mail (click it on the Dock or open it from the Applications folder).
2.If the "Welcome to Mail" assistant does not appear, choose Add Account from the File menu.
3.Fill in the Full Name, Email address, and Password fields.
Note: Your email account password will be stored in Keychain and used automatically to login to your email account when you open Mail.

4.Deselect "Automatically set up account" if it is enabled. Click Continue to proceed.
5.Choose the proper Account Type.
6.Give your account a useful description, such as "Anne's Gmail account" or "Juan's Yahoo! email account". It can be called whatever you want.
7.Enter your Incoming Mail Server, User Name and Password. Click on Continue to proceed.
8.If prompted, enter your Incoming Mail Security settings. Click Continue to proceed.
9.For Outgoing Mail Server, a useful description such as "Gmail Outgoing Mail Server" or "Yahoo! Outgoing Mail Server".
10.Enter the Outgoing Mail Server details.
11.If necessary, select "Use Authentication" and enter your User Name and Password. Click Continue to proceed.
12.If prompted, enter your Outgoing Mail Security settings. Click Continue to proceed.
13.Verify your settings in the Account Summary. Check "Take account online". Click "Create" to complete the process.

To configure a Yahoo email account in Mail, you need a Yahoo! Mail Plus subscription, which may require an additional fee.

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Magic Mouse To Work on Windows

Drive For Magic Mouse for Windows:
Windows 32Bit Driver
Windows 64Bit Driver

Setting up Details
Go to the control panel, click on the mouse, go to the bluetooth tab, then select connect. It went through the discovery process again and this time it found it. It asked for an authentication number and i put in 0000, a defacto standard for pairing. It saw the mouse, paired it, and now it will work for basic functions. It is basic functions only though.

Note: Magic mouse will work as Normal mouse it wont have all the function like in Mac.

Advance Smart Folder on your finder

All of us regularly download some thing or the other from net on daily bases and each time we need to go to download folder and move to our selected folder. With Smart Folder finder its just easy.

Click on menu File> New Smart Folder.
Click the "+" symbol located on right top conner of New Smart Folder.
On the Pop which is the given image Select the kind of search file you want to save.
The select kind of match you want like
and type related file like

and click save You can find this Folder on finder Search Foror on the location you give.